How to pronounce shifts
Listen to shifts in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“shifts” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 707 American · 736 British · 69 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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full shifts, full second shifts and back shifts.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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But when identity shifts, behavior shifts.
TED · hear it here
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society as a world we've moved through many shifts societal shifts planetary shifts world shifts technology
Intelligence Squared · hear it here
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We care about it because the risks from policy shifts, market shifts, technology shifts are having
DCCEEW · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of shifts. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.